Educational Websites

Accurate reckoning, the entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets…

-- Ahmes Papyrus

MATHEMATICS INFORMATION/STANDARDS

1. http://www.nctm.org (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)

2. http://www.nde.state.ne.us (Nebraska Department of Education)

MATHEMATICS

1. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html Virtual manipulatives

2. http://www.agutie.com Geometry from the land of the Incas

3. http://www.coolmath.com/graphit Online graphing calculator

4. http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/arithmetic/Arithmetic.swf Multiplication simulation tool

5. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ Many great Math simulations

ROBOTICS/ELECTRICITY

1. http://octopus.ius.cs.cmu.edu/~iba/p3/ Video

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqQ9B8_jIs Video

3. www.sodaplay.com Design and build wire frame robots

4. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html go to 3-5 geometry and then select Lady bug mazes or Turtle Geometry

5. http://www.play-hookey.com/dc_theory/ For information on basic DC circuits

6. http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Voltage/ Ohm’s law experiments

7. http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/R/robots/constructor.html Robot design game

8. http://www.ugoplayer.com/games/buildarobot20.html Robot design for young kids

9. http://www.instructables.com/id/ES8Y0F6F0SR0HF5 Electromechanical design for older kids

10. http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1998/153-12/15312-21.pdf tinker toys

11. http://www.paperrobots1999.com/home.html Art connections

12. http://phet.colorado.edu/web-pages/simulations-base.html DC circuit simulation